Six days after the discovery of the family massacre in Dover (Ain), on July 20, we learned more on Tuesday about the course of events. The five victims of the murder perpetrated in this small village of a thousand inhabitants, on the night of July 19 to 20, were thus all killed with knives, indicates the parquet floor of Bourg-en-Bresse, in s on the autopsies performed.
The killer, aged 22 and shot on July 20 by the GIGN, when he refused to surrender, was armed on the spot with a long-barreled rifle and a katana, a Japanese sword. He attacked his 51-year-old father, his partner (48), his 17-year-old sister, his stepmother’s daughter (15), and the child from the new union, a 4-year-old boy.
Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor Christophe Rode provided further information on Tuesday: “Presumably, the victims were beaten while they were sleeping. But it is difficult to determine the order in which the assaults were committed, although it is likely that the couple were killed first. »